FACT: Recent studies have shown that calcium may protect against colon cancer: Participants in the Nurses' Health Study who consumed more than 700 mg of calcium per day per day had up to a 45 percent reduced risk of colon cancer than those who consumed 500 mg or less per day. Although 700 mg may sound like a lot, it can add up with a cup of low-fat yogurt for breakfast (345 mg), a cup of low-fat milk with lunch (300 mg), and a cup of spinach in your salad with dinner (292 mg).

Bone tissues play many roles within the body – supplying structure, defending organs, anchoring muscles along with storing lime. While you need to build powerful and healthy and balanced bones throughout childhood as well as adolescence, you could make steps through adulthood to defend bone wellbeing, too.